Chapter 8 Flashcards
Natural, irregular-like living things; non-mathematical
Organic
Valuing individual experience and the freedom of thought and feeling apart from classical restraint
Romantic
A literary work using irony or derisive wit to attack folly or wickedness
Satire
A print made by burning lines into a metal plate with acid, inking the plate, and then printing it on paper
Etching
The re-birth of classical art, naturalistic in style, from the fifteenth through the sixteenth century
Renaissance
Art that emphasizes reason, objective, and restraint in style and content
Classicism
Rustic, peaceful, pastoral in look or in spirit
Arcadian
A charming or picturesque rural scene
Idyllic
Disorderly, or rough view of untamed nature
Picturesque
The implied distance from the nearest part of the picture to the farthest
Picture space
The part of a picture that appears nearest the viewer
Foreground
The area of a picture that extends from the nearest objects to the most distant
Middle ground
The flat surface of the painting; of the picture were a window, the - would be the glass
Picture plane
Shapes or forms that come from mathematical relationships; circles, spheres, squares, cubes, cylinders, and so forth
Geometric
Parallel to the horizon; side to side in direction
Horizontal
Perpendicular to the horizon; up and down in direction
Vertical